We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

The funniest thing people say to me: "I wish I had your life". Hello! I make a living writing about it.

Life tells the most beautiful stories.

I really think I'd be better at, like, advanced napping techniques.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.